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Its premise feels completly like Person Of Interest

posted 10 years ago by awoolfork
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minus POI's emphasis on artificial intelligence and its social commentary on privacy invasion and human morals. but the whole trying to study and intervene before a crime takes place. ( and even then from procedural standpoint its funny saying that as POI in these past two seasons has damn near left their procedural roots behind ). they only thing with POI in its early days before shifting heavily towards big plot lines is that you didn't know whether the person was going to be the vic or the perp. don't know if the player is like that but it feels somewhat like poi ( i don't think it will be better ).

[–] mpadpy 9 years ago

POI is not the only similarity. Many others shows are based on stopping crime, minority report is like that too.. Intelligence could have been like this.. But that blew it in the Pilot itself..

[–] Bullet4891 9 years ago

yep POI but no where near as good. how the heck can the writers think they can get away with just ripping off another show. they havnt borrowed ideas they have just plagiarised the whole thing.

[–] GaelinW 9 years ago

how the heck can the writers think they can get away with just ripping off another show

Chicago Hope
ER
Chicago Med
---All hospital shows in Chicago. Add them to....
St. Elsewhere
Grey's Anatomy
Code Black
And on and on
----And you have a bunch of hospital shows that are pretty much the same. And you can go back 50 yrs with them.

Cop, private detective and lawyer shows, "all in the same vein" go back even further.

. they havnt borrowed ideas they have just plagiarized the whole thing.

How have they "plagiarized the whole thing"? Where is the gambling aspect of POI? The missing ex-wife? The security consultant with the open, working relationship with the police?

Regardless, "plagiarism" would be if they had characters named Carter, Fitch and Reese. One of whom would be a billionaire with a limp. There's not particularly unique about a show with a gun toting lead who formerly worked for the government helping/saving people, and who is being aided by police and/or a computer genius and funded by a mysterious person or group.

The AI aspect makes POI unique. The gambling aspect makes The Player unique. All the rest is considered generic/typical tv trope.

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[–] bbenet 9 years ago

I was hoping for something more realistic for Philip Winchester. I regretted the fantasy premise of POI for Jim Caviezal and regret it even more for Philip Winchester

I like my stories based in reality where humans must deal with problems using ordinary human intelligence, otherwise I find it too difficult identify.

[–] awoolfork 9 years ago

sorry about that, because while im not into the player, POI has because unreal amazing in its past two seasons. Season 3 and 4 of POI are some of the best television i have seen in years. It has slowly shed its procedural roots of the first two seasons. whether or not The Player does that the same fashion idk but right now i don't have that kind of faith. i just need something to hold me till POI season 5 gets here.

Its funny too because from what i heard Amanda Segel, who if you now your info, is involved with the writing team of The Player. Amanda Segel before this was supremely involved with the writing staff for POI and has written some very notable episodes during the shows first four seasons i don't know who else's she working with here though in terms of writers and directors.

[–] rogerscorpion 9 years ago

We must agree to disagree. I like procedurals--if well done. I like sci-fi, if well done, too. I just don't like losing one for the other.

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[–] BigSexDel 9 years ago

It's feels like a version of Knight Rider if honest, except instead of KITT they have Casandra.

The Pit Boss is some menacing Devon Miles.

Nothing to see here, move along

[–] puredieselbc 9 years ago

Sorry, I must've missed the episode of POI where Jim Caviezal jumps out the back of a plane mid-flight without a parachute.

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[–] wheelin176 9 years ago

Off the top of my head,I don't either.

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